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77 The cuckoo of Swanscombe Marsh
Episode 77
Swanscombe is one of the last surviving brownfield sites in the Thames Estuary where threatened wildlife can live. On the Kent side of the Thames, to…
5 years, 3 months ago
Last pasture before the sea - Winchelsea to Rye
Episode 76
Our first really clear sound-view of the landscape came along a footpath a mile or so from Winchelsea station, with the A259 behind us and, according…
5 years, 3 months ago
75 Yacht masts on the estuary at Wrabness (part 1)
Episode 75
We stopped to step over a large brown caterpillar mid-way across the rough brambled footpath. All around us light breezes were sweeping through the h…
5 years, 4 months ago
74 Night shallowing in a Suffolk Wood - listen with headphones (sleep safe)
Episode 74
This is part eight, 3am to 4am of the twelve hour Suffolk Wood recording. We made it almost four years ago on a balmy summer night in August by leavi…
5 years, 4 months ago
Slow rhythms of the Hoo Peninsula
Episode 73
Several miles up the sun-baked track, along overgrown footpaths and through fields high with meadow grass, lie the watery ditches of the Higham Marsh…
5 years, 4 months ago
The tunnel, the towpath and the window - under the M6 at Spaghetti Junction
Episode 72
Set free from its cradled bowl, the smoke from the bargeman's pipe rose straight, into the sky. Lighter than air, the burning vapours knew all-too-we…
5 years, 4 months ago
Wading cows and a passing cuckoo - the lakes and woodland of Chatsworth
Episode 71
Mid-afternoon. June hot. An overgrown track on the Chatsworth Estate, close to the peaceful lakes above the house, between meadows and dense woodland…
5 years, 4 months ago
70 - Blue sky. Empty beach. Low tide.
Episode 70
It's past midday on a late May day in Suffolk and the sun is pouring down onto a calm sea. It's shining, for the first time this year, with that summ…
5 years, 5 months ago
Time beside a stream in the Welsh hills
Episode 69
A fair April day has dawned up in the hills above the village of Kerry. Nothing's come or gone yet along the road beside the stream. Nature's curfew …
5 years, 5 months ago
Birdsong in rain from inside the derelict chapel at Abney Park nature reserve
Episode 68
There's a special feeling that comes with the sound of falling rain. With a sky still free of jet planes, this is how the day unfolds within the secr…
5 years, 5 months ago